But who is to determine which side has Truth and Right, and, therefore, the true and the just claim to paramountcy and sovereignty in South Africa?
For those ideas are the originating causes, the moving springs, the ultimate justification, and the final vindication of all true and just claims to paramountcy and sovereignty everywhere.
The secret vote also rests on a vast assumption--that of the universal paramountcy of conscience and honesty in electors--which paramountcy is as scarce as political heroism.
By this document Russia recognized Japan's paramountcy over the bulk of China, while Japan recognized Russia's special interests in China's Western dependencies, Mongolia and Turkestan.
But it is this very paramountcy which the extremists deny to Great Britain.
Japan proffered recognition of paramountcy in Manchuria for Russia in return for preponderance by Japan in Korea.
Finally the Mikado's Government proposed to Russia a settlement by diplomacy of questions of paramountcy and trade privileges in Manchuria and Korea.
But the extension of an avowedly German line of railway to Koweit would have been a direct challenge to the paramountcy which Great Britain claimed over the Persian Gulf.
